Crawling Creatures In "Our Benefactors"

[Zlatko]

There were some kind of weird creatures when you are inside that coffin and going through the railway system in "our benefactors". These things were big, they had 4 legs, crawled very slowly it seemed, and it looked like they were on an assembly plant in the citadel...maybe someone else saw them before?

 

[Ren.182]

There quite a few threads on this. Rather then flame you, i'll tell you what they are.

Those things are Synths. Giant mecha/orga (Mecha means machine, orga means organic) creatures. They are very powerful and they are a big part of the combines army. I suppose the Combine were deploying them to sort out the uprising rebels.

 

[Zlatko]

Sorry if it's been asked before.

Im kinda wondering why we were never allowed to fight those things.

I guess that's something they'd use for Opposing Force 2..

 

[Ren.182]

I think they were originally supposed to be used in the game but got cut. Because the attack animations are done for them. You can view them in the model viewer.

 

[Frank]

I guess we'll fight these in the expansion pack or else I could see no reason why they would design such beauties if there were no use for them...

 

[Ren.182]

They could have designed them for eye candy... Like i said they may have made them originally to be used in the game, but cut them from the game for whatever reason.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

They were designed specifically with me in mind, knowing that they'd be brilliant in my own mod...

But, yeah, they're Synth. The same 'species' as Striders. They are what won the Combine the 7hr war.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Solver]

And they were most probably being assembled in haste to stop the resistance. I'm fairly sure that the resistance would not stand much chance against those things, they are probably much worse than the striders. So it's good you destroy the citadel when you do.

 

[BigBrother]

wait...striders are organic??11 the citadel was awesome

 

[Cukel]

I am 98% sure that we are going to fight the synths in some expansion, probably all of them

 

[BigBrother]

I bet you 2% that you're wrong

 

[Angry Lawyer]

You're already fighting synths. Gunships, Striders, Scanner Mk. 2s; they're all synth.
It depends on who makes the expansion, though, to see whether the Mortar and Crab synth get used. Gearbox seem to have a knack for creating their own random things. Like Race X.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[BigBrother]

gearbox pwns!!11

 

[KarkuRi]

Could I see a pic of the synths? The Model Viewer is messed up.